Olympic Schmoozers Lap Up Largesse

By

Roger Thurow Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Feb. 19, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

SHIGA KOGEN, Japan -- Dispatches from the front -- of the buffet line:

Cocktail hour, and jet lag is kicking in. Maybe it's the mountain air here above Nagano or the sake or sukiyaki or soothing harp music, but the 120 guests of UPS, 14 time zones away from home, are beginning to zone out. The chopsticks are getting tangled.